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I would like to become a better photographer. I'm working on that.

Become Photographer Working Better
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The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.

African Approve Book Bride
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When you're going into an employment environment that looks pretty scary, it is easy to lose your moral compass, your decency, your sense of civility and your sense of community.

Decency Civility Community Compass
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Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.

Society Chained Nailed Floor.Weakness
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I believe it is important to speak to your readers in person... to enable people to have a whole picture of me; I have to both write and speak. I view my role as writer and also as oral communicator.

Believe Both Communicator Enable
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I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.

Feminist Liberation Toward Woman
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As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.

Book Different Money Publisher
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I like to be called a Nigerian rather than somebody from the Third World or the developing or whatever.

Developing Nigerian Rather Somebody
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I usually make sure that my stories are from Africa or my own background so as to highlight the cultural background at the same time as telling the story.

Africa Background Cultural Highlight
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Show a people as one thing, only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.

Become Show People Only
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The truth is an anti-war statement in itself.

Truth Statement Itself Anti-war
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I wonder how Colin Powell sleeps at night. I would like to have a word with him because he lied. He lied. He lied to me. He lied to my face through the camera at the U.N.

Lied Face Camera Night
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The kid who throws his spaghetti from the high chair onto his father's face, he's pushing back. He's sticking it to the man as he sees it. I like that. So that is punk.

Pushing Punk Sticking Man
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To see change in your own area code is very powerful. There's a little orphanage down the street from my company, and we donate $1 from the sale of each CD we sell to the orphanage.

Company Orphanage Donate Powerful
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Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.

Interest Type Worried Exactly
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There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable.
Forgivable Easily Some Make
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In Israel, there's a lot to learn from anyone, because to live there you've got to deal with the truth. Things happen real fast. Your day goes from cool to catastrophic in one second. Israelis know that the cafe you're in could blow up, or the shopping mall, and they rock that.

Israel Truth Happen Rock
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When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.

Punk Never Know Reply
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The idea that any performer type is owed anything is a joke to me.

Idea Type Joke Owed
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The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn’t have the weight of gender expectations.

Problem Gender Weight Individual
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I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the feeling I was playing music, I had to stop. The need to go onstage and get my brain flattened every night left me, and what I didn't wanna do is go onstage and perpetrate a fraud... You cannot fool an audience.

Fraud Fool Audience Onstage
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First we need to calm down, breathe, and get over ourselves.
Over First Calm Breathe
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I was in Pakistan in Islamabad when Bhutto was assassinated, and the next day, you know, there's just plumes of smoke everywhere. I mean, Islamabad is on fire.

Plumes Islamabad Fire Smoke
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Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.

Dignity Break Matter Empower
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I'm pessimistic. I don't think that justice always gets the right person.
Think Person Justice Pessimistic
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This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.

Love String Significance Miracle
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I've been on 'Jay Leno,' and everyone likes Jay, but being on that show is a really boring afternoon. I sincerely like Jay, but I wouldn't want his job, because I'd have to interview Kathy Ireland, and there's nothing there I'd want to know.

Ireland Interview Kathy Boring
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Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.

Race Never Exist Choice
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I don't have a crystal ball, but I'm willing to bet one of my arms right now that as long as there's electricity, Ramones music is going to be relevant.

Electricty Ramones Relevant Music
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A woman at a certain age who is unmarried, our society teaches her to see it as a deep personal failure. And a man, after a certain age isn’t married, we just think he hasn’t come around to making his pick.

Pick Around Come Age
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I'm not in a position where I get to pick and choose roles. I usually go on auditions in long lines and embarrass myself in front of casting directors, and with a lump in my throat and my ears burning, I walk past reception and smirking actors as I go to the parking garage and go back on the highway.

Actors Parking Garage Highway
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Teach her that if you criticize X in women but do not criticize X in men, then you do not have a problem with X, you have a problem with women.

Teach Criticize Problem Have
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If I'm jetlagging, and I've missed some meals, and it gets to that point in a movie that you're supposed to cry, I'll let my defences down from around my inherent standing level of cynicism, and I'll cry.

Around Inherent Cynicism Cry
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Seven-11 is the pulse-beat of America. I think that Bruce Springsteen should do a song about a 7-11 in Asbury Park, New Jersey, but write it in such a way that American's youth can identify and slurp along with the Boss. Hail the Boss! Hail 7-11!

Youth Slurp Boss American's
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We teach girls shame. “Close your legs. Cover yourself.” We make them feel as though being born female they’re already guilty of something. And so, girls grow up to be women who cannot say they have desire. They grow up to be women who silence themselves. They grow up to be women who cannot say what they truly think. And they grow up — and this is the worst thing we do to girls — they grow up to be women who have turned pretense into an art form.

Teach Close Cover Feel
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Your feminist premise should be: I matter. I matter equally. Not “if only.” Not “as long as.” I matter equally. Full stop.

Matter Equally Stop Premise
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Then she wished, more rationally, that she could love him without needing him. Need gave him power without his trying; need was the choicelessness she often felt around him.

Around Often Power Felt
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I hate painting with a broad brush, but I think the birther thing, at its root, is racist. The guy was born in Hawaii. A black guy is president. It's cool. Get over it. Just deal with it. There's nothing you could show these birther people that would shut them up.

Painting Racist Black President
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She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself.
Head Felt First Feel
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Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

AppearaBeyond Good Judgement Lies
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I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

Always Cannot Control Goes
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Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

Accurate Believe MPeople Put
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It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

Anger Angry Choose Either
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Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

Day Ethics Live Rather
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There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

Happen Living Love Make
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You can never get enough of what you don't want.You can never get enough of what you don't want.

Enough Get Never Want
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Teach her that the idea of 'gender roles' is absolute nonsense. Do not ever tell her that she should or should not do something because she is a girl. 'Because you are a girl' is never reason for anything. Ever.

Teach Idea Role Gender
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What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it's because that's what's inside.

Anger Because Come Fear
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We did that often, asking each other questions whose answers we already knew. Perhaps it was so that we would not ask the other questions, the ones whose answers we did not want to know.

Often Each Answer Question
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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Any Last Need Pockets
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